“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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Tiny Thought, Asymmetry
Linear games are won by working harder than others. And the harder other people work, the higher the bar. You need to work harder and harder, just to stay in the same relative position.
Asymmetry is different. Even people who understand asymmetry consistently underestimate its power.
Positive asymmetry happens when you have a lot of upside and little downside. Negative asymmetry is when you have little upside and high downside. Finding hidden or overlooked asymmetry is the key to an unstoppable advantage. And there is a lot of it hiding in plain sight.
Consider trust. A lot of people are slow to trust. Their default level of trust is about 40% and you earn more.
Very few people understand that a low trust approach reduces positive asymmetry.
Most of the time people deserve to be trusted by default. Perhaps 3% of the time they take advantage of you and make you look foolish. In an effort to avoid what happens 3% of the time, people forgo asymmetric upside.
Not only does a low trust approach eliminate the upside, but you spend your time looking over your shoulder worrying about how someone might take advantage of you. That’s no way to live.
High trust people want to be around other high trust people.
I’m pretty trustworthy by default. And while some people have taken advantage of me, I still prefer my approach because there is no ceiling on what’s possible. The three largest business deals of my life have all been high-trust deals.
A low trust approach might put a floor on how often you get taken advantage of, but it puts a ceiling on what’s possible.
— Shane Parrish
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“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”
— Mahmdou Darwish
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“Listen to me, your body is not a temple.
Temples can be destroyed and desecrated.
Your body is a forest —
thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood.
You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
— Beau Taplin, Temples
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“When someone gives you a rare insight into their life, do not repay that gesture by betraying their…” https://thoughtkick.com/post/677344927790841856
“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”
— Muriel Rukeyser
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
— https://twitter.com/GetWiser/status/1497764631946932225
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“But that’s the thing about letting someone open you up and play with your heart … They never sew you back up afterwards.”
— Ranata Suzuki
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“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…”
— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
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